Comments on: Plugin Idea: Weighted Tags by Category http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2005/01/28/plugin-idea-weighted-tags-by-category/ More than just a blog. Sat, 17 May 2008 02:22:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: WordPress Finally Has Tags! at Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth) http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2005/01/28/plugin-idea-weighted-tags-by-category/#comment-272115 WordPress Finally Has Tags! at Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth) Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:21:02 +0000 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2005/01/28/plugin-idea-weighted-tags-by-category/#comment-272115 <p>[...] Bear with me while I dig though my archives: weighted tags by category is something I’d forgotten I’d wanted… does anything like that exist now? [...]</p> […] Bear with me while I dig though my archives: weighted tags by category is something I’d forgotten I’d wanted… does anything like that exist now? […]

]]> By: Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth) » Tags and Categories are not the Same! http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2005/01/28/plugin-idea-weighted-tags-by-category/#comment-54877 Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth) » Tags and Categories are not the Same! Sat, 11 Feb 2006 07:57:32 +0000 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2005/01/28/plugin-idea-weighted-tags-by-category/#comment-54877 <p>[...] I went back to read two of my old posts: Technorati Tagified and Plugin Idea: Weighted Tags by Category which I wrote about a year ago. In both, it’s very clear that as a user, I don’t percieve tags to be the same thing as categories. Tags were something like “public keywords”. Is anybody here going to say that keywords and categories are the same thing? (There is a difference between keywords and tags, but this isn’t the topic here; keywords and tags are IMHO much closer in nature than tags and categories). [...]</p> […] I went back to read two of my old posts: Technorati Tagified and Plugin Idea: Weighted Tags by Category which I wrote about a year ago. In both, it’s very clear that as a user, I don’t percieve tags to be the same thing as categories. Tags were something like “public keywords”. Is anybody here going to say that keywords and categories are the same thing? (There is a difference between keywords and tags, but this isn’t the topic here; keywords and tags are IMHO much closer in nature than tags and categories). […]

]]> By: Stephane Le Solliec http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2005/01/28/plugin-idea-weighted-tags-by-category/#comment-36570 Stephane Le Solliec Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:51:06 +0000 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2005/01/28/plugin-idea-weighted-tags-by-category/#comment-36570 <p>Stéphanie, I think you have to choose:</p> <p>when I write to my weblog, wiki, flickr, etc ... I don't want to spend time choosing a category AND setting keywords AND choosing tags.</p> <p>IMHO, tagging is enough, if it is correctly done.</p> <p>If you want to create a tool that is widely used, implementing categories, keywords and tags will confuse most users, and even most of your readers surely don't grasp the subtility of the differences between your categories, your keywords and your tags.</p> Stéphanie, I think you have to choose:

when I write to my weblog, wiki, flickr, etc … I don’t want to spend time choosing a category AND setting keywords AND choosing tags.

IMHO, tagging is enough, if it is correctly done.

If you want to create a tool that is widely used, implementing categories, keywords and tags will confuse most users, and even most of your readers surely don’t grasp the subtility of the differences between your categories, your keywords and your tags.

]]> By: Firas http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2005/01/28/plugin-idea-weighted-tags-by-category/#comment-36488 Firas Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:12:19 +0000 http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2005/01/28/plugin-idea-weighted-tags-by-category/#comment-36488 <p>What I wanted to do was make a firasd.org/weblog/tags/ tagspace to point to which would show a homegrown techonorati tags thing (like the weighted categories plugin, but using tags instead.)</p> <p>You're right in observing that the php/sql itself would be pretty short.</p> <p>Maybe a output_bunny_tags_all($weighted = false, $limit = '') function where $weighted is whether the tags are weighted by font-size and $limit takes time (day, week, month, year) or category-name bounds, hm?</p> <p>I'll submit that if you don't get around to doing it before me :)</p> What I wanted to do was make a firasd.org/weblog/tags/ tagspace to point to which would show a homegrown techonorati tags thing (like the weighted categories plugin, but using tags instead.)

You’re right in observing that the php/sql itself would be pretty short.

Maybe a output_bunny_tags_all($weighted = false, $limit = ”) function where $weighted is whether the tags are weighted by font-size and $limit takes time (day, week, month, year) or category-name bounds, hm?

I’ll submit that if you don’t get around to doing it before me :)

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